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Gloucestershire start T20 campaign with unlikely win
Gloucestershire bowled Warwickshire out for just 74 runs to start their T20 campaign with a win that barely seemed possible just an hour earlier.
The team from Birmingham won the toss and decided to field and their decision looked like a good one, needing just 16.1 overs to take all ten of the home side’s wickets.
Shire’s 121 all out – with Ben Charlesworth top scoring with 25 – appeared to be an easy target for the Bears but the Bristol bowlers rose to the occasion with aplomb.
South African all-rounder Duan Jansen took four wickets on his debut, Craig Miles took three including the last of the match prompting rapturous scenes in the Mound Stand and there were two for Marchant de Lange including clean-bowling his former Gloucestershire colleague Beau Webster.
In only the first round of matches, this could well be the lowest-scoring T20 game of the season. But a win’s a win and it’s Somerset up next in Ashley Down on June 5 in a mouth-watering West Country derby back under the Friday night floodlights.
Main photo: Martin Booth
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